Linkage Methods and Analytic Support for NCHS-CMS Medicaid Data

• Golden C, Driscoll AK, Simon AE, et al. Linkage of NCHS population health surveys to administrative records from Social Security Administration and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Health Stat 1(58). 2015. [PDF – 1.4 MB]

  Contains an overview of the data sources, the methods used for linkage, descriptions of the resulting linked data files, analytic guidance, and match rate tables.

• Sample Sizes for Restricted-Use NCHS-CMS Medicaid Files [PDF - 193 KB]

  Tables providing sample sizes for each of the NCHS-CMS Medicaid files by NCHS survey, type of MAX file and year of MAX data.

Additional Resources:

• NHANES–CMS Linked Data Tutorial
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) website
• Medicaid–Children’s Health Insurance Program
• Research Data Assistance Center (ResDAC) at the University of Minnesota